It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of Denis Germain, (better known to all of you as 'Lepetitmartien') on the 31st of December as a result of his ongoing battle with cancer at 48 years of age.

Denis had a cancer of the oesophagus, which seemed to be under control but took a turn for the worse recently to everyone's surprise.

He was one of the Macmusic's team first members and was the chief moderator on the forum boards, to which he gave his time abundantly and oversaw with patience, firmness and kindness.

A team player who was always on hand when extra help was needed, for example during trade shows, or spotting bugs on the site, helping to make the site more efficient, reorganising the forums, or translating pages into english.

Denis also campaigned online fo ...

MOTU is now shipping Digital Performer version 9, a major upgrade to their flagship audio workstation software.

Version 9 now includes MOTU's powerful MX4 MultiSynth, plus five new plug-ins, automation lanes and spectrogram display in the Sequence Editor, Retina display support, MusicXML notation export and other new features.
Automation lanes in the Sequence Editor — Display audio and MIDI automation data (volume, pan, plug-in settings, etc.) in separate lanes below each track for easier viewing and editing. Show and hide as many lanes as you wish.

Spectrogram display in the Sequence Editor — View the spectral content of each audio track, side by side with their waveforms, directly in the Sequence Editor timeline with a colorful, informative visual representation of the frequency content of your audio material.

Retina display support — View DP's carefully crafted UI themes like Carbon Fiber, Producer and the all-new DP9 theme in stunning detail on the exceptionally high image resolution of your Mac's Retina display.

MusicXML export — Export your DP QuickScribe notation scores as a MusicXML file, which can then be imported into popular music notation applications like Finale and Sibelius . QuickScribe's renowned notation transcription, along with dynamics and many other musical symbols, are preserved during the file transfer...
Be carefull: It is not a free update!

As the New York Times reported, Mike Adams, Moog Music Inc. President/CEO, stopped production in the factory on Tuesday afternoon and gathered the employees for an impromptu meeting. Adams began by saying, "I called you all here to let you know I sold the company."

After a brief silence, he continued, "The good news is I sold it to all of you."

Moog Music Inc., the electronic musical instrument company founded by the late synthesizer pioneer Dr. Bob Moog, is proud to announce that as of June 6, 2015, Moog Music Inc. is an employee-owned company.

"The employees at Moog Music Inc. are what make this company successful," said Adams. "I feel the best way to recognize their passion and hard work is to give them ownership."

Adams' decision is in line with the vision of Dr. Moog, who wanted the company to not only be a place that took care of its employees and their families, but also rewarded their hard work by sharing in the company's financial success.

MuTools released MuLab & MUX Modular Plug-In 6.4.

Highlights:

- Greatly improved LFO module with fully editable vectorial wave shapes.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgDzeLMghTc
- New "Note Dispatcher" module which dispatches the incoming notes to one of its outputs depending on the mode: Random - Round Robin - Keyed - Key Range.
- New MIDI Channel Remapper module to remap the 16 MIDI channels to another channel.
- New One Pole Lowpass module.
- Renamed the term "Session" to the more familiar term "Project".
- New Sinc-16 sample interpolation algorithm which sounds much better when transposing samples with lots of trebles.
- When working with many tracks and audio parts, scrolling, zooming and editing the composer is (much) faster now.
- Number MIDI inputs and outputs has been doubled from 8 to 16, resulting in up to 256 possible output channels.

After many years of development, we are thrilled to announce that Omnisphere 2 is coming in 2015.

This is the first v2.0 of any Spectrasonics instrument and it's truly a gigantic one!